I’m on a Podcast. HYAH!

Sci is back, along with Jason, Christie, Travis, and Peter, for the Obesity Panacea podcast!! Check it out as we talk about field work, and some of the stuff in the science blogsphere.

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OH OH ALSO

WE ARE BACK! We are now officially back to scientopia.org, server change is totally done, and all the feeds are FIXED! Three cheers for Mark, our intrepid Web guy who probably never sleeps.

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Friday Weird Science: The Vomit Comet

Sci fully intended to slide this post in for the Carnal Carnival JUST before the deadline, but events conspired against her, and against Friday Weird Science in general!  It was too sad. And so Friday Weird Science goes up late today as Sci scrambles to catch up on life.  But it’s still about vomit.  Because […]

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Running Rats and Cocaine

You all may recall that I posted recently about cocaine escalation in rats. Drugmonkey has also been posting some interesting stuff about addiction and…EXERCISE. And of course, Sci can’t see that and leave it alone. So I’m going back to a paper that really galvanized the idea of exercise in treating addiction. Cosgrove, Hunter, Carroll. […]

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Science Enemies

Dr. Becca posted something hilarious about her Science Enemy, who actually BROUGHT A RULER to measure her error bars. That’s some serious crazy right there. Drugmonkey agreed with the crazy, but also mentioned that help felt these kind of rivalries help to move science forward. Sci has her own Science Enemy, but more importantly her […]

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“Who is Carl Sagan?”

Sci doesn’t usually dip her toe in the water with regard to metabloviation on science outreach and science communication (though she does a lot of both outreach and communication). While I love to run with and develop and perform and output new ideas in science communication and outreach, I find the controversies and discussions surrounding […]

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Friday Weird Science: EveryBODY…Rock your BODY

When Ed tweeted something earlier this week about the silliest science he had ever seen coming out soon, I figured it would be right up Sci’s alley. And I’m pretty sure this was the paper he referred to, and if it wasn’t, than some truly INSANE science must have gone entirely unnoticed by the main […]

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